At Pharmacinta, we utilise cookies to ensure our website operates smoothly and to customize your experience. To help you make an informed choice regarding cookies, please review the following information about their purpose and usage.
We employ cookies to enhance your visits, and we aim to clarify how and why we use them. Cookies cannot access data from your hard drive or from cookie files set by other websites. Their use is standard practice across the internet and can be found on most websites.
We maintain the right to alter or update our cookie usage at any time, for any reason. Any modifications will be posted on our website and will take effect immediately. By continuing to use our site after any changes are announced, you signify your acceptance of those changes.
What are cookies?
Cookies are tiny data files stored on your computer during and after your visit to a website, or even via emails. They mainly enhance the user experience by remembering your preferences on a specific site and tracking items in your shopping cart while you browse. This allows for a more efficient usage of the site and saves you time by eliminating the need to re-enter details on subsequent visits. For us, cookies help analyse user interaction, enabling site improvements.
Cookies can also gather anonymous data to assess website usage, making advertising more targeted and relevant to users.
Some cookies are essential for proper website functionality, while others, though not crucial, enhance your site experience.
You can accept or decline cookies by adjusting your web browser settings. However, rejecting cookies may limit your website experience, and some functionalities may not work at all.
To modify your cookie settings or to be alerted before a cookie is used, you should adjust the settings in your web browser to stop us from storing cookies on your hard drive.
You can manage and delete cookies in your browser whenever you wish, following the instructions provided by your specific browser.
Third-party cookies facilitate additional features on our website, such as analytics. These third parties are accountable for the cookies they place, which are beyond our control.
How does Pharmacinta use cookies?
We utilise ‘browser’ cookies on our website. These anonymous cookies help us analyse site usage through Google Analytics, allowing us to implement enhancements for better customer experiences.
The types of cookies we use include:
- Strictly necessary cookies: Essential for our website’s operation, enabling functions like logging into secure areas or utilising e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies: Allow us to recognize visitor numbers and how users navigate our site. We may collect data regarding the device type, unique identifiers, network information, operating system, IP address, browser details, and time zone settings which help us improve site functionality.
- Functionality cookies: Recognize returning visitors, personalize content, greet users by name, and remember preferences to facilitate efficient navigation.
- Targeting cookies: Record site visits and interactions, which we analyse to enhance site relevance to your interests.
- Advertising cookies: Assist in displaying advertisements on other websites.
- Tracking cookies: Monitor unidentified users, assisting in storing preferences and site engagement for future visits.
We also employ other tracking technologies like web beacons to recognize visits to our website or interactions with emails we send.
Additionally, we use Google Analytics for site monitoring. It collects data anonymously and generates reports on site visits, origins, duration, and page interactions. Google Analytics places persistent cookies on your device that do not gather personal data. You may disable these cookies if you prefer not to be tracked.
Social media buttons and plugins are also present on our site, which may set cookies through social media platforms to enhance user profiles or contribute to their data as noted in their privacy policies.
How to block and delete cookies
You can delete all cookies through your web browser.
For assistance, here are helpful links:
- Google Chrome: (Delete cookies - https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop&hl=en)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer: (Manage cookies - https://support.microsoft.com/en-nz/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies)
- Mozilla Firefox: (Enable/disable cookies - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences)
- Safari: (Manage cookies and website data - https://support.apple.com/en-nz/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac)
- Microsoft Edge: (Browsing data and privacy - https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4468242/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy-microsoft-privacy)
For more detailed information on managing or deleting cookies, visit www.aboutcookies.org, www.allaboutcookies.org, or www.youronlinechoices.eu.